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Cricket
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Introduction:
You are getting
ready to study a fascinating insect.......the cricket. How on earth
are you going to remember all of the things you did at school?? Your
parents are going to want to know all about your study of crickets.
There are many ways to communicate. Have you ever heard the
expression, "a picture is worth a thousand words"? It is true.
Wouldn't it be great if there were a way to show your parents all the
things you've been doing with crickets at school?
Task:
Design a class
newspaper all about your study of crickets. Include pictures, and
different sections of the newspaper like sports, jokes, articles,
food, book and movie reviews.
Process:
- While you are conducting your study
of crickets, investigate the parts of a newspaper by looking
through several papers. Find the different sections. Talk about
their format. As you study your crickets, create the following
sections of your own newspaper:
- Feature Articles: Get ready to
prepare your cricket vivarium by illustrating what might be
included. Take digital photos and write an article about
vivarium preparation. Write fictional cricket
stories.
- Artwork: After learning about
the cricket body parts, illustrate them using KidPix.
Illustrate the four life needs of crickets (food, water, air,
place to live)
- Food: Create a plan to design a
cricket from food (large marshmallows, mini M&M's, cut up
licorice, Skittles, pretzel sticks, halved GummiSavers). Follow
your plan to construct the cricket. Scan your plan and write
recipes for Edible Crickets.
- Movie Reviews: View the movie "The Cricket in Times Square" and write movie
reviews.
- Poetry: Study different kinds of
poems and create your own.
- Jokes and Riddles: Study the
format of jokes and riddles. Try your hand at cricket
riddles.
- Sports: Hold a jumping contest
and write a sports report. Make sure you graph the
results.
- Time to release your crickets and
put all the articles and pictures together so that you can publish
the paper.
- Fill in the Cricket Unit
Survey.
- Take your newspaper home and share
it with your family.
Opportunities
to share:
- The newspaper will be shared with
classmates and families.
- Students will share their stories,
riddles, jokes and reviews throughout the process.
Assessment:
A student
survey is given after the unit
is finished.
Teacher
section: This unit was designed for
two second grade classes. It took approximately 3 weeks to complete.
Each child participated in all of the activities except the poetry,
sports articles and movie reviews. When it got to that point,
teachers let the children decide which one of the three they wanted
to do. A representation of each activity was chosen for the
newspaper. A parent volunteer did the final coelation of the paper on
the computer.
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To see pictures from the unit,
click on the cricket.
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design click
here.
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Unit designed by Gail
Allen andKim
Morrison
Page created by Brooks
Widmaier
March 29, 2002
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